While writing her “Great War Trilogy” that is set after and during the “Great War” she relied on existing oral history, after the fact interviews, military accounts, contemporary newspaper articles, memoirs, and diaries. She starts out with general history and then goes to more specific histories before concluding with primary sources if she had the funds and time. Nonetheless, while Robson does not call herself a historian, she approaches the research for her novels like a professional historian. Moreover, her father was also a historian who told her stories of the history of the wars and got her hooked.

In fact, her doctoral thesis had elements of clothes rationing during World War II. It is no surprise that Jennifer loves to write stories set during and immediately after the “Great War” given that she studied the social and economic history of Britain. She currently lives with her husband and children in Toronto, Canada.

For several years, she was an editor before she decided to quit and become a professional author once her debut novel became a huge success. While at Oxford Robson was an SSHRC Doctoral Fellow and a Commonwealth Scholar. She also went to the University of Oxford’s Saint Antony’s College where she got her Ph.D. As someone that was so interested in history, Jennifer went to Western University’s King’s University College, from where she graduated with a degree in Modern History and French Literature. Rather they are historical fiction with women at the center of the story. While the novels are often categorized as historical romances with their sepia-toned and pastel-hued covers featuring couples in longing stares, these novels are anything but. Robson is known for her themes of women dreaming of achievement. She has also contributed to the “Fall of Poppies” anthology. Most of her novels are set either during or immediately after the end of World War I and World War II.

She debuted her writing career with the novel “Somewhere in France,” the first novel of the bestselling “Great War” series. Jennifer Robson is an academic, lifelong history nerd, former editor turned full-time author of historical fiction and romance novels.

Somewhere in France by Jennifer Robson